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Why Satan is still on earth?

Here's something I heard that Mom put on while we were cleaning up lunch dishes.  It's a paraphrase, because I don't exactly remember what he said, but it's the general gist:

Why does God let someone like Satan hang around on earth?  Because He had mercy on mankind.  How is that? 
Here's what I think Satan said to God after Adam sinned: 
God, I'm a rebel. I know it and You know it. See that flaming, burning lake of fire? I deserve to go there and I am going to go there. I know it and You know it.  But that man down there? He's sinned and is also a rebel. He deserves the same.  And because you are a holy and just God, the day you send me to the lake of fire, your justice demands that you send mankind there also.   
That is how Satan posed the situation for God.  And God chose to have mercy on mankind and give them a second chance. 
 -Derek Prince
But mercy for man, meant also allowing Satan and his minions to roam the earth.

Doesn't that just make TOTAL SENSE!!!????

~CJ

P.s. I may double post today...
P.p.s. I'm terrrrrrribly behind on Read-a-Thon, but I have no piano students today, so some extra time! :)
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